Tetsuden Kashima

Tetsuden (Tetsu) Kashima was born in Oakland, CA in 1942. As an infant, he was taken with his family to the Tanforan Assembly Center and the Topaz, Utah WRA camp. At Topaz, they were incarcerated until 1945. Tetsu received his B.A. from the University of California Berkeley, and his PhD in Sociology from University of California, San Diego. He began at the University of Washington as the Director of Asian American Studies in 1976. He has been an invited professor at Ryukoku University, Kyoto and the Yamaguchi National University in Yamaguchi, Japan. He is the author of Buddhism in America: The Social Organization of an Ethnic Religious Institution (Greenwood Press) and Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II (University of Washington Press). Tetsu is a Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of American Ethnic Studies and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology.